Theatre Arts have ~180 undergraduate majors and 50 graduate students in the department, with many other students also taking our classes and participating in our productions.  With ~25 productions each year, there are hundreds of acting opportunities and many options for students who want to work behind the scenes (as a designer, stage manager, board op, run crew or in the shops). 

Theatre Arts at Iowa is big enough to have something going on all the time, yet small enough so people really get to know one another.

News for Current Students

New Directing Faculty & Directing I

We are pleased to announce that Tlaloc Antonio Rivas will be joining the faculty at the University of Iowa’s Theatre Arts Department in August. Tlaloc will be teaching Directing I (049:130:001) this Fall.  The class is open to all BA majors.

Tlaloc has worked as a director on established works and new plays at leading theaters – from major play development organizations to small, cutting-edge professional companies.

Tlaloc has worked at New Dramatists, Mabou Mines, and the Public Theatre among others in NYC.  He is a Usual Suspect for New York Theatre Workshop and former Artistic Associate of The Group Theatre. Regionally, he has worked at Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre Dallas Theatre Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Mark Taper Forum, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  He was the founding Artistic Director of Chicano TheatreWorks.

Tlaloc is currently teaching acting and directing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, prior to that he taught at Queens College (NYC), NYU Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing (NYC), The Wilma Studio Theatre (Philadelphia), Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA), University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and Arcadia University (Glenside, PA).

Commencement

The Theatre Arts Department Commencement is Saturday, May 12 at 7p in the E.C. Mabie Theatre.

Students graduating Spring 2012, Summer 2012, or Fall 2012 are eligible to walk.

Contact Hillary Foster with questions.

Registration

Not registered for the Fall Semester yet? You should make an appointment to meet with your Theatre Arts advisor.

Advising questions should be addressed to Hillary Foster in the main office or Loyce Arthur, Director of Undergraduate Studies.

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